Blip Festival 2007
dal 28/11/2007 al 1/12/2008
Segnalato da
Bill Lessard - PRwithBrains for The Blip Festival
28/11/2007
Blip Festival 2007
Eyebeam Atelier, New York
Four days of low-bit computer music and visual art. A cultural event focusing on the 8-bit scene - musicians and artists who use low-bit videogame and computer hardware as their creative tools. The festival is the widest-reaching event in the history of the form, boasting a roster of over 40 international artists performing and exhibiting from all over the world. Presented by The Tank and 8bitpeoples.
The Blip Festival is a four-day international cultural event taking place in New York City this November into December, focusing on the 8-bit scene - musicians and artists who use low-bit videogame and computer hardware as their creative tools. The festival is the widest-reaching event in the history of the form, boasting a roster of over 40 international artists performing and exhibiting from places as diverse as Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Argentina, and across the United States.
[New York, NY - Oct 5, 2007] – Manhattan art space The Tank
and New York artist collective 8bitpeoples announce the Blip
Festival 2007, a four-day music and multimedia event focusing
on the modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and
home computer technology. Featuring 40 musicians and visualists
from around the world, the Blip Festival showcases artists
adopting and repurposing familiar but forgotten hardware –
such as the Commodore 64, the Nintendo Entertainment
System, the Atari game console and home computer line, and
the Nintendo Game Boy – exploring their untapped potential
and unique aesthetic character.
The festival’s nightly concerts and daytime screenings, workshops,
and presentations are supplemented by B I T M A P : as good as new, an adjunct visual art exhibition,
held at acclaimed Brooklyn gallery vertexList. The Blip Festival 2007 offers a fascinating
cross-section of the chiptune musical aesthetic and related low-bit visual art, in an explosive event
taking place at the epicenter of the creative world.
2006’s inaugural Blip Festival was the first showcase of its kind and the largest event in the history
of the form, drawing over 1400 attendees. And the Blip Festival 2007 sustains its predecessor’s
breakaway momentum. “Last year’s lineup and turnout made clear that there’s a large and growing
interest in this movement that shouldn’t be ignored,” states Mike Rosenthal, Blip Festival co-curator
and Managing Director of The Tank. “The Tank has been the New York home of the chiptune scene
since about 2003, and we feel we owe it to this community to have a massive annual event that
reaches out to the broader international community.” Long-standing friends of The Tank, Chelsea’s
Eyebeam Atelier, lend their 5000 square-foot art space to this year’s festival, providing it with a
perfect home.
Culturally and artistically, the Blip Festival has become its own reward for everyone involved. “In
hosting this event,” states Rosenthal, “we not only nurture the chiptune scene by giving international
artists a chance to meet each other face-to-face and to present their work, but we also give
New Yorkers a unique chance to experience a very hip international subculture that continues to
grow and thrive across the world.” So those in-the-know and new initiates alike will enjoy a rare
chance to experience this pioneering underground niche movement in digital art and music, buzzing
with the excitement of familiar devices doing unfamiliar things. And chances are you’ll find yourself
dancing to some of the strangest, most resonant, and most unexpectedly compelling music
you’ll have ever heard. We’ll see you November 29th.
Presented by The Tank and 8bitpeoples
Eyebeam Atelier
540 W 21st Street, Chelsea
New York